1 170000 men is not enough to defeat the Ukrainian army AND to occupy and pacify Ukraine . It is 10 western divisions to defeat,occupy and pacify a country of 40 million + people.
2 Putin has not more men ( total Russian manpower is 1 million ).
3 Even if he had more men,he could not use them, as the bigger the army means the slower the advance .
From all this,my guess is that the invasion was a repetition of the invasion of Afghanistan: they invaded Afghanistan with 25000 men,killed the local Quisling and replaced him by another one,hoping that this would be enough .
It wasn't .
Now,they tried to kill the ruler of Ukraine ,they failed and invaded with 170000 men ,hoping that these would be at the western borders of Ukraine in a week ,and that everything would occur without much casualties ( the less Ukrainian casualties the less Ukrainian opposition and the less whining by the Western media ):but they failed .
Why did they use these tactics ? Simply :because they knew that a full-scale war would fail and because they hoped that the only alternative ( a police action ) would succeed .
That's why I am still convinced that failure or success depended more on what the Ukrainians would and could do .
Three other questions are still avoided by our media ,who as usual,spread only propaganda .
1 WHY did the Russians invade Ukraine ?
2 WHY did the invasion happen at the end of February ,with the Rasputitza looming,
and not in December or January?
3 WHY took the Russian build-up so long ? Why took it weeks to concentrate 170000 men on Russia's western border ?
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